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The Making of the Medieval Middle East : Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, Tannous provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East.
This provocative book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.
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Preface
Introduction
Part I: Simple Belief
CHAPTER 1: Theological Speculation and Theological Literacy
CHAPTER 2: The Simple and the Learned
Part II: Consequences of Chalcedon
CHAPTER 3: ‘Confusion in the Land’
CHAPTER 4: Contested Truths
CHAPTER 5: Power in Heaven and on Earth
CHAPTER 6: Competition, Schools, and Qenneshre
CHAPTER 7: Education and Community Formation
Interlude: The Question of Continuity
CHAPTER 8: Continuities—Personal and Institutional
Part III: Christians and Muslims
CHAPTER 9: A House with Many Mansions
CHAPTER 10: A Religion with a Thousand Faces
CHAPTER 11: Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority
CHAPTER 12: Conversion and the Simple—The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
CHAPTER 13: Finding Their Way—The Mosque in the Shadow of the Church
Part IV: The Making of the Medieval Middle East
CHAPTER 14: Rubbing Shoulders—A Shared World
CONCLUSION: Dark Matter and the History of the Middle East
Appendix I: Approaching the Sources
Appendix II: The ‘Arab’ Conquests
Works Cited
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Index
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